Reference no: EM133529127

Assignment: Leadership & Advocacy in Early Childhood Portfolio

Length: 1500 words.

Learning Outcomes

You will demonstrate the following Unit Learning Outcomes on the successful completion of this task:

A. Demonstrate knowledge of the key principles of leadership and management in practice in early childhood education and care services and settings underpinned by theoretical and practical perspectives on administration, management and leadership.

B. Demonstrate an understanding of how to build supportive and collaborative environments for children, parents, community and staff.

C. Critically reflect on the role that advocacy plays in early childhood education (locally, nationally and internationally) and identify the skills that a strong advocate for the ECEC profession should display.

D. Critically analyze and understand the role of the educational leader: including relationships, responsibilities, expectations, ethical practice and transition to an educational leader.

Task Description

You are required to go through the 3 interviews with the educational leaders in ECED provided and then follow the instructions under the Task Instruction section below.

Rationale

As an early childhood educator, it is important you have an understanding about leadership and your role as a leader.

Task Instruction

Three interviews with educational leaders in ECEC are provided. Choose ONE interview with an educational leader to complete the analysis; the interviews can be found under the assignment information. You will prepare a critical review of the role, responsibilities and challenges of the early childhood educational leader.

The information collected from the interview is to be analyzed to describe the educational leader's position with respect to:

1. key roles and responsibilities of the educational leader
2. the leadership style, and link this to early childhood leadership theory

Discuss the challenges faced by early childhood educational leader with respect to leadership style, processes and practices employed; provide examples in practice.

Present and discuss measures the educational leader takes to advocate for children's learning and development

Critically review what quality means in terms of the leadership role regarding educational outcomes for children; provide examples in practice.